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Problem accessing files on external HD
Hi,
I recently bought a new PC with Windows 10 and I am having some issues with an external USB hard drive that I was wondering if I could get some feedback on. Here's the problem: when trying to access certain files on the drive (no rhyme or reason apparent - it just happens with the occasional file, but frequently enough to be a serious hindrance when backing up and restoring data), whatever part of Windows 10 that's trying to access the problem file will freeze up. If I try to copy the file, the copy dialog will do nothing and I will be unable to even abort the transfer. If I try to open the file, file explorer will stop responding. The weird part is that I can manipulate these files okay on my old Windows 7 machine. The files don't seem to be corrupted in any way (based on md5 hash), although copying or opening small problem files on the win7 machine can sometimes take a couple of minutes. Once they have been copied over, they behave normally. Does anybody know what's going on here? Is there a problem with my USB drive? This would not be good as I depend heavily on this drive for file backup.
Thanks,
Sam
Oh, one last thing - I have encountered "problem files" that have been copied to the drive by both the Windows 10 and Windows 7 machines, so it's not the case that one machine or the other is failing to copy to the drive correctly.